I have compiled it with the necessary dependencies, following the guide of my friend, who unluckly doesn't own anymore the Cubieboard, so he can't help me. This is his guide: link. Here you can read the complete log with child by strace -f xbmc: log

I've got XBMC working, the problem is that alsa sees only one Sound Devices that is Default (sunxi-CODEC sunxi PCM), while it should be sunxisndhdmi in order to get the sound working through hdmi. Here's the log file:

(2014-03-14, 21:46)hybridmag Wrote: Check this video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ5yQqwpOJU
He got hardware accelerated xbmc and he use archlinux..
There's a link in this video description...
Tell us if it works for you

Yes i followed his guide, he's my friend, but he doesn't own anymore the Cubieboard so he can't help me. Have you ever tried XBMC on Cubieboard?

(2014-03-14, 21:46)hybridmag Wrote: Check this video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ5yQqwpOJU
He got hardware accelerated xbmc and he use archlinux..
There's a link in this video description...
Tell us if it works for you

Yes i followed his guide, he's my friend, but he doesn't own anymore the Cubieboard so he can't help me. Have you ever tried XBMC on Cubieboard?

I don't have cubieboard I have minixplus device which has the same crappy all winner hardware..
As for cubieboard I can tell you that there's a forum for your device and I've found there this thread:http://www.cubieforums.com/index.php?topic=442.0

Which has xbmc binaries ready to use.. So check this think..
Also you can try Hackbmc v0.02 which has an xbmc Linux image with cedarx hardware acceleration + libhybris which seems to run videos smooth...
Try those things..

BTW for everyone here I've tried xbmc Gotham alpha 8 and 9 builds for android and they play some 720p movies very good! (I've tried to play "the hangover")
But whebn I tried to play some TV shows (like arrow and vikings) the result was catastrophic
All the builds after alpha 9 can't even play any video with acceleration its just turning to black screen and my xbmc crash...

The point is that some 720p movies works with hardware acceleration really good with alpha 9 build...

(2014-03-14, 21:46)hybridmag Wrote: Check this video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ5yQqwpOJU
He got hardware accelerated xbmc and he use archlinux..
There's a link in this video description...
Tell us if it works for you

Yes i followed his guide, he's my friend, but he doesn't own anymore the Cubieboard so he can't help me. Have you ever tried XBMC on Cubieboard?

I don't have cubieboard I have minixplus device which has the same crappy all winner hardware..
As for cubieboard I can tell you that there's a forum for your device and I've found there this thread:http://www.cubieforums.com/index.php?topic=442.0

Which has xbmc binaries ready to use.. So check this think..
Also you can try Hackbmc v0.02 which has an xbmc Linux image with cedarx hardware acceleration + libhybris which seems to run videos smooth...
Try those things..

BTW for everyone here I've tried xbmc Gotham alpha 8 and 9 builds for android and they play some 720p movies very good! (I've tried to play "the hangover")
But whebn I tried to play some TV shows (like arrow and vikings) the result was catastrophic
All the builds after alpha 9 can't even play any video with acceleration its just turning to black screen and my xbmc crash...

The point is that some 720p movies works with hardware acceleration really good with alpha 9 build...

Can HackBMC be used also with Cubieboard? How to "flash" it to the SD card?

(2014-03-14, 21:48)toketin Wrote: Yes i followed his guide, he's my friend, but he doesn't own anymore the Cubieboard so he can't help me. Have you ever tried XBMC on Cubieboard?

I don't have cubieboard I have minixplus device which has the same crappy all winner hardware..
As for cubieboard I can tell you that there's a forum for your device and I've found there this thread:http://www.cubieforums.com/index.php?topic=442.0

Which has xbmc binaries ready to use.. So check this think..
Also you can try Hackbmc v0.02 which has an xbmc Linux image with cedarx hardware acceleration + libhybris which seems to run videos smooth...
Try those things..

BTW for everyone here I've tried xbmc Gotham alpha 8 and 9 builds for android and they play some 720p movies very good! (I've tried to play "the hangover")
But whebn I tried to play some TV shows (like arrow and vikings) the result was catastrophic
All the builds after alpha 9 can't even play any video with acceleration its just turning to black screen and my xbmc crash...

The point is that some 720p movies works with hardware acceleration really good with alpha 9 build...

Can HackBMC be used also with Cubieboard? How to "flash" it to the SD card?

(2014-03-16, 15:33)toketin Wrote: It works (HackBMC), i can boot it, but XBMC is not installed :/

weird.. its working on my device...
you should wait something like 10 minutes for the xbmc to come up...
maybe more... but eventually it will start...

You're right, XBMC started on my TV but i can't use it without a Wifi connection, and my usb dongle wifi TP WN722N, which requires the module ath9k_htc to work, it's not recognized by the system. The kernel doesn't have that module
I've tried moving my router near the TV and controlling XBMC with the smartphone, but it doesn't play the video correctly, the 720p was ugly and a simple mp4 make XBMC crash down lol

(2014-03-16, 15:33)toketin Wrote: It works (HackBMC), i can boot it, but XBMC is not installed :/

weird.. its working on my device...
you should wait something like 10 minutes for the xbmc to come up...
maybe more... but eventually it will start...

You're right, XBMC started on my TV but i can't use it without a Wifi connection, and my usb dongle wifi TP WN722N, which requires the module ath9k_htc to work, it's not recognized by the system. The kernel doesn't have that module
I've tried moving my router near the TV and controlling XBMC with the smartphone, but it doesn't play the video correctly, the 720p was ugly and a simple mp4 make XBMC crash down lol

Lol so i guess its a failure again:/
I wonder how other video players like mx player can play movies with acceleration and the mighty xbmc cannot

(2014-03-16, 22:11)davilla Wrote: If other video players like mx player had public source code available, then we too would know all the secret sauce.

The thing is that not only mx player has hardware acceleration for allwinner..
i saw many more (like 4) that can handle this and play videos with hardware acceleration..
i will make a list of them here.. maybe one of them has a public source code available...

(2014-03-16, 22:11)davilla Wrote: If other video players like mx player had public source code available, then we too would know all the secret sauce.

The thing is that not only mx player has hardware acceleration for allwinner..
i saw many more (like 4) that can handle this and play videos with hardware acceleration..
i will make a list of them here.. maybe one of them has a public source code available...

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